I wonder what Louis Pasteur would say if he knew that in the future that people would reject his methods of making milk safe to drink because they are totally ignorant of the dangers of drinking milk thanks to his methods of making milk safe to drink.

I wonder what Louis Pasteur would say if he knew that in the future that people would reject his methods of making milk safe to drink because they are totally ignorant of the dangers of drinking milk thanks to his methods of making milk safe to drink.

This is the same problem the anti-vax movement seems to have. This propensity for fault in human logic does not instill a lot of hope in me for the future survival of humanity.

There are valid nutritional claims to be made for drinking raw milk. The question is whether there is also a safety risk that would outweigh any health benefits.

anecdotally, I know several farmers who have been drinking raw milk their entire lives. Literally, milking the patured cows in the morning and drinking it's milk fresh that day. neither of them has ever been sickend by it.

But if you scaled up their one family operation to hundreds of cows, mixed all the raw milk together and distributed it to hundreds of people, the chance of passing on some nasty bacteria is greatly increased.

I always thought it was more a matter of longevity. I do remember that the best milk/ice cream I ever had was sold at a dairy farm right next to where the cows were. I was pretty young, but I think it was unpasteurized.

There are valid nutritional claims to be made for drinking raw milk. The question is whether there is also a safety risk that would outweigh any health benefits.

anecdotally, I know several farmers who have been drinking raw milk their entire lives. Literally, milking the patured cows in the morning and drinking it's milk fresh that day. neither of them has ever been sickend by it.

But if you scaled up their one family operation to hundreds of cows, mixed all the raw milk together and distributed it to hundreds of people, the chance of passing on some nasty bacteria is greatly increased.

Legitimate Source please?

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People are so used to criticizing religion in whispers, that a normal voice, sounds like a shout.

I really love that there folks out there saying that raw milk is so healthy that its worth risking disease and other people out there saying that any milk is bad for you and it probably causes osteoporosis and both sets of people are probably wrong.